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I quite like the look of this place - pretty convenient for work too. I wonder if anybody will lend me £5 million. - Andrew Eland

That's some serious geometry. - Andrew Eland

I particularly like the cheese inspired soap dispenser, and the zen garden tools for steamed up bathroom mirrors. - Andrew Eland

Why have I only found this blog now? (via swissmiss) - Andrew Eland

I definitely agree. These poxy flashing red lights do nothing to deter people from breaking builds. We need something that causes physical damage. - Andrew Eland

The full guide is here: http://www.lda.gov.uk/publica... - Andrew Eland

"Since 1980 there have been no mandatory minimum space standards for housing in the UK, ever since the famous Parker Morris standards for Space in the Home, which were drawn up in 1961, were abolished by Margaret Thatcher's government in 1980. This has led, in recent years, to London having the smallest new houses and apartments of any major city in the Western world — and this at the... more... - Lindy hop for animals

I definitely applaud this, but I'm surprised at how low the minimum space standards are - 61m2 for a 2 bedroom, 3 person flat. - Andrew Eland

"For those who love irony - The user manual is printed on 200 GSM stock, but typeset in Arial." - Andrew Eland

I went to see this last night - it was excellent. - Andrew Eland

"This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge" - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

"Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography." - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

«Baseline try to align to the font metric to correctly line up headlines, paragraphs, form labels and any other major elements on the page» — an instant feeling of a well laid out paper page. - 9000

Like the final scene on Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life", only more so. - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

"Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art" - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

"In case news hasn't reached you, Ikea has changed its global font from Futura to Verdana". A sad, sad, day. - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

"We're gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet." - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

I'm pretty sure those are Swiss factories, and not British ones. - Andrew Eland

Time to take a holiday. - Andrew Eland

"This set of simple infill techniques represents a sprawl repair toolkit to retrofit the 5 building prototypes that define Suburbia." - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

Earthquake visualization - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

"the patch notes say that it "resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1)"" - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

But for how long? :-) - Andrew Eland

"With Google Maps for mobile 3.2 for Symbian S60 & Windows Mobile phones (and soon on other platforms too!) you can now access and interact with this content by tapping 'Layers' in your main menu." - Andrew Eland from Bookmarklet

I had no idea that the passengers per employee figure for low cost airlines was *an order of magnitude* less than others - Andrew Eland

"Screen real estate is at a premium, therefore we should make as much use out of it as we can. One way of doing this is to decrease the font size on our code windows. Unfortunately decreased size also means decreased clarity. We need to re-engineer the alphabet so that it will be clear at extremely small sizes." - Jim Norris

If you *really* wanted to maximize screen real estate, design something like QR codes, except 3x3 pixel square. That's 9 bits — plenty! - Amit Patel

I love the cartography, and the pins with inbuilt ratings. Beautiful. - Andrew Eland

"The beautifully made infographic animated movie 'It's Time for Real / Eat Local, Eat Real' highlights the increasing tendency of food importation" - Andrew Eland

"The beautifully made infographic animated movie 'It's Time for Real / Eat Local, Eat Real' highlights the increasing tendency of food importation" - Andrew Eland

I'd be interested to know what you're testing. - Andrew Eland

actually nothing to do with @geo (an account i registered years ago for use with Dopplr) but testing how responsive the Twitter Streaming API is for tracking public mentions of unique strings. Turns out it's pretty responsive. - Matt Biddulph

Any data that you'd care to share? - John Kalucki

"....coming soon" - Andrew Eland

Discover? You mean like invent? - j1m

You're missing ovens that weigh less than 16 (metric) tons, and hobs that can boil water for tea in less than 10 minutes. - Andrew Eland from email

There's an excellent history of MTA typography here: http://bit.ly/A2KH - Andrew Eland

Check out those graphics. - Andrew Eland